The Leader Enterprise

Hon. John R. Mercer For Congress

By G. W. Beazley in Byromville Herald.

Hon. John R. Mercer of Dawson, Terrell county, candidate for congress in the Third district, will now very soon get actively into the campaign. He is preparing his platform setting forth the principles upon which he shall ask the suffrage of the people of the Third congressional district, and as soon as completed will be given to the press for publication. It is his intention to visit every town and community in the district before the August primary. It is his purpose to meet and talk with as many as possible before that time.

Mr. Mercer is no politician- just a plain farmer and business man, one who has made a success of tilling the soil and naturally feels an interest in all thus engaged, and if honored by being chosen to the high and exalted position of which he aspires his farmer friends can rest assured that their interests and welfare will be safely and sanely guarded. Reared on a farm over in Webster county he worked between the plow handles early and late; he knows the need of the farmer. Mr. Mercer is proprietor of Elladale farm, a magnificent place near Dawson, on which was made 100 bushels of oats to the acre last year, and he is planning to make it 200 this year. He is at present constructing a modern roller process wheat mill in order to encourage his neighbors and friends to plant more wheat. Mr. Mercer was the first man in Georgia to offer to pay cash prizes for the largest yields of corn per acre. Mr. Mercer is popular with all who are acquainted with him, and is one of the state's very best citizens. We have known of Mr. Mercer for many years, and know him to be a high-toned Christian gentleman, one who has the ability and all the requisite qualifications to fill the place to which he aspires. He has served as mayor of his thriving city more than once, and in 1906 was elected to the legislature from his county. The people of his section believe in him, and well they might.-

Dawson News.